The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt
The Librarianist Patrick deWitt Ecco. July 2023 on sale It’s hard to imagine the literary world...
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Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
When a deeply-flawed tell-all biography of the late artist X is released, her widow, CM Lucca,...
Orfeo by Richard Powers
The year has just begun and Richard Power’s stunning new novel Orfeo will certainly end up on my...
Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III
Andre Dubus III is the kind of writer every MFA student in the 1990s aspired to be. A...
My Favorite Books of 2013
I have struggled mightily with short story collections of late, because there are always a few...
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Everything living thing has been given a signature of what it is meant to do on planet earth....
Our Frail Blood by Peter Nathaniel Malae
Our Frail Blood by Peter Nathaniel Malae, is a brilliant, heroically Catholic novel. Dense, Proustian in its savor of the quality of time and its lost chances.…
Ten Things I’ve Learnt About Love by Sarah Butler
A box of ARCs arrived and as I was making a reading pile, this book’s red cover grabbed me. Inside was a letter from the editor, and I immediately took it to the couch and gave it my full attention (the writing whispered of Elliott Holt, more on that in a minute).…
Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
In sports, they say that if you have three of something, you have nothing. Three closers? Three quarterbacks competing for the starting job?…
The Morels by Christopher Hacker
The Soho press catalog came my way and aside from all the crime fiction, there was this interesting book about a writer/artist, his family, and how fucked up things get when a certain “novel” is published.…
Flaca by Junot Diaz
“Flaca” isn’t the real name of the woman in this story. It’s the nickname given to her by her boyfriend. It’s an interesting claim of possession, to rename the person you are in a relationship with.…
